Tort Law
Tasered Accountant Gets $60K in Excessive-Force Case
Posted Nov 19, 2008, 06:00 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A 53-year-old Washington state accountant who voluntarily went to the local police station as a witness and wound up as a defendant in an obstruction case, after being jolted twice with a stun gun, has won a $60,000 award in a federal civil rights case.
Kevin Bonner was awarded $35,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages by a federal jury that found Normandy Park police used excessive force. The jury also determined that a detective investigating the underlying child-abuse matter had used excessive force, but did not commit an assault and battery, reports the Seattle Times.
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